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A Study of Psalm 16 (verse 11, Presence)
1 Preserve me, God, because I take refuge in you. 2 I say to Yahweh, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have nothing good.” 3 I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones
Continue reading...A Study of Psalm 16 (verse 7, Counsel)
1 Preserve me, God, because I take refuge in you. 2 I say to Yahweh, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have nothing good.” 3 I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones
Continue reading...A Study of Psalm 16 (verse 2, Lordship)
1 Preserve me, God, because I take refuge in you. 2 I say to Yahweh, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have nothing good.” When you pray to God for something specific, is your prayer simply, “Lord,
Continue reading...The Divine Council of God
The Divine Council of Yahweh Job 1:6 Now there came a day when the sons of the elohim/created divine beings/gods came to present themselves before Yahweh. And the Shatan/Satan/adversary also came among
Continue reading...Haggai 1:7,8 – Pleasing God and Being Whole
What does it take to please God? It’s going to sound selfish, but it isn’t. 7 This is what Yahweh Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Gardens of Idolatry
Israel was guilty of using gardens for worship of pagan gods and improper worship of Yahweh Himself: Green trees and watered gardens were rare and special places among those living in (semi-)arid conditions
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The Garden of Eden
In August 1859 a surveyor came upon some beautiful red sandstone formations in what is now Colorado Springs, Colorado, and rather flippantly said to his companion, “this would be a capital place
Continue reading...The Mountains of God: Mount Zion
Though it started out as the stronghold of the Jebusites on the eastern slope of Jerusalem which King David conquered (2 Samuel 5:7), Mount Zion became the city of David, Jerusalem, which expanded to include
Continue reading...Habakkuk’s Recollection of Yahweh’s Past Deeds (Habakkuk 3:3-15)
Habakkuk continues his prayer for God to remember mercy in His wrath. God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth. 4 His
Continue reading...Jeremiah 32, Buying Land During an Invasion
32:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem,
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (3): Mankind Before the Fall (Part Two)
When the author of Hebrews quotes Psalm 8 in defense to his readers that Jesus is the fulfillment of man’s rulership on earth, he quotes the Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament, which
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (2): Mankind Before the Fall (Part One)
Any biblical anthropology must recognize humans as they were before they sinned and the changes that occurred in them after they sinned. 26 Then God said, “Let us make adam (man) in our image, and
Continue reading...Daniel 4:1-37, The Humbling of Nebuchadnezzar
Keil and Delitzsch note: Abydenus, in the fragments preserved by Eusebius (a church father)…announces as a Chaldee tradition…that Nebuchadnezzar, after the ending of his war in the farther
Continue reading...Sermon on Deuteronomy 32, You Shall Have No Other Gods
The first of the 10 Commandments is… Exodus 20:3, Do not have other gods besides me. Does this verse suggest that there are other gods competing with the true God for our devotion? The son of a
Continue reading...Yahweh and the Angel of Yahweh
The Name of Yahweh What does your name mean to you? I have to say that I don’t think about the meaning of my name much at all. The name William has several possible meanings, “determined protector,”
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